I was driving home from another shoot I had just completed, and I caught a glimpse of an abandoned boat off the freeway in an industrial warehouse area. I almost did a double-take. Did I really just see a boat in a gravel filled yard off the freeway? When I got home, I pulled up Google Maps and tried to remember exactly where I saw it. I was able to determine its approximate location and decided to attempt to find and shoot it the next day after work. That next day, sure enough, I was able to find it with no problem. It was a pretty sketchy area and probably not a good place to stop, let alone take my time to properly frame and expose a shot. I parked around the corner, stuck my Sekonic meter out the window, positioned it the same direction in relation to the light as the boat was and took an EV reading. The light measured 13.5 EV. I used an app to convert that number to a fast enough shutter to hand-hold, and an aperture narrow enough to get some decent depth of field. I set my camera to 200th/f11/250 ISO. I hopped out of the car, walked for a bit to get to the chain-link fence where the boat was, flipped out the screen, pointed it down a bit, and with the camera up over my head, snapped a few frames. It was very bright outside, so I wasn’t able to see the screen very well, but it appeared that I had at least one shot that was level and well composed. I jumped back in my car, and got back on the freeway. On the way home, I found myself humming the theme song to the TV show I watched as a kid, “Gilligan’s Island”.
Abandoned boat in an industrial warehouse area
| Tag Name | Data |
|---|---|
| Title | Abandoned Boat |
| Image Description | Abandoned boat in an industrial warehouse area. |
| Keywords | boat, graffiti, gravel, industrial, la mirada, speed boat, warehouse |
| Copyright | Copyright ExpertPhoto.com All Rights Reserved |
| Artist | ExpertPhoto.com |
| Make | Canon |
| Camera Model Name | Canon EOS R |
| Lens Model | RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM |
| Focal Length | 39.00mm |
| Shutter Speed Value | 1/200 second |
| Aperture Value | 11.00 |
| ISO | 250 |
| Date/Time Original | Thursday July 27, 2023 04:25pm |
| City | La Mirada |
| State | California |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Gateway Center |
| GPS Altitude | 10 meters (32.8 feet) above sea level |
| GPS Latitude | 33.8797903116528 |
| GPS Longitude | -118.022517240044 |
| Map | Google Map Link |